Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their equivalent. Courses in the liberal arts are conducted on the first-year graduate level, with emphasis on reports and discussion of extensive outside reading. A typical example of the program's success is the course in Greek. Meeting only two hours a week for a term of sixteen weeks, the women cover more ground course in the University, which meets three hours a week for thirty weeks...
...Beta Kappa last night elected the Senior Sixteen...
Fire in the Woods. Sixteen miles farther on, scenting danger (by then there was a price on their heads and 12.000 Vopos were looking for them), the Czechs hid in a haystack, foraging at night for food. One day they heard a man's voice; the man was saying that he knew the refugees were hidden near by and that he was going to inform the police. Then a woman's voice: "Why, for the sake of heaven above, do you want to do that...
...Sixteen weeks passed. The weather in The Bronx grew cold; the fondly expectant curators grew worried. At last they decided that they should wait no longer. Last week, working carefully with small trowels under the eyes of 50 newspaper reporters and photographers, they dug into the dirt to bare Penelope's secret. They found a network of burrows; they found Penelope. But they found no leafy nest -and no platykittens...
...with nothing to hide but their own mistakes. Last week Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty announced that there would be a new executive order on classified information. Under the new order, 29 Government departments, e.g., Veterans Administration, War Claims Commission, will be stripped of the right to classify information. Sixteen other departments, e.g., Civil Aeronautics Board, Subversive Activities Control Board, may still classify, but only with the approval of the department head...